Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
BAYARD TAYLORThe maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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